International Conor withdraws Irish presidential bid

[PBAC]

So after announcing he secured the nomination he has now withdrawn his bid. In other words it was bs.

Conor McGregor pulls out of Ireland’s presidential race

Former mixed martial arts fighter had vowed to curb immigration to shore up ‘Irish culture’ and give power ‘back to the people’

www.theguardian.com

 

[ShadowRun]

Yea saw that

 

[jimbob27]

So after announcing he secured the nomination he has now withdrawn his bid. In other words it was bs.

Conor McGregor pulls out of Ireland’s presidential race

Former mixed martial arts fighter had vowed to curb immigration to shore up ‘Irish culture’ and give power ‘back to the people’

www.theguardian.com

It would have been like Tito's political career all over again. The Taoiseach is the head over government in Ireland, the President is mostly an administrative role with very little power to choose policies. If he'd got the job he would have found himself miles out of his depth, being asked to perform an extremely high level bureaucratic role for which he has no experience or qualification. I guess it would have been funny for a bit, but Ireland is certainly better off now the shit-show has been averted.

 

[Stoic1]

Unfortunate.

Im sure he would have been quite entertaining. And that is what politics has become: Entertainment.

 

[Tatra]

I'd say his wife/family probably talked him out of it due to the Kirk assassination.

 

[TryggeTryggvar]

He must have realized even the irish are not drunk enough to vote for him

 

[DoctorTaco]

That cocaine induced confidence

 

[Luthien]

That was quick

@HI SCOTT NEWMAN

 

[Elvis.]

I’m sure the other candidates are so relieved, but seriously I would have liked it to have gone on a bit longer, it would have been such a fiasco there’s no way it wouldn’t be entertaining

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Add it to the list of pull outs.

 

[HoiceNJuicy]

Conor, you pull out merchant!

 

[Hellowhosthat]

I'd say his wife/family probably talked him out of it due to the Kirk assassination.

lol @ Conor listening to his wife.

 

[syct23]

“You’ll do nothing, get the fook outa here”

 

[Prutfis]

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[PBAC]

Yea saw that

He didn't know how the nomination process worked. Same shit as Tate thinking he could run for PM.

 

[Madmick]

I'd say his wife/family probably talked him out of it due to the Kirk assassination.

More likely they are smart enough to understand the impact of a campaign to them, and to him. You become villains for a huge amount of people to despise, and cheer against. Your privacy is annihilated. They dig up every bad thing you did or said, not just the candidate, but everyone close to him, and also the people close to them. They scrutinize your finances. A crowdsourced mob passionately pours through your biography and your past with a fine-toothed comb looking for anything to weaponize against you.

The more you succeed, the higher you rise, proportionally the greater this scrutiny and hatred becomes, and the longer it endures. If you rise high enough, if you do enough on behalf of your supporters, you eventually reach a point where it lasts forever. You can never go out in public without someone shouting "Fuck you!", or harassing you.

It's a Faustian bargain like celebrity, but instead of money or the love of strangers, the only meaningful compensation that is guaranteed is power. So if the President is largely some bureaucratic figurehead...holy shit, why would anyone do it?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

More likely they are smart enough to understand the impact of a campaign to them, and to him. You become villains for a huge amount of people to despise, and cheer against. Your privacy is annihilated. They dig up every bad thing you did or said, not just the candidate, but everyone close to him, and also the people close to them. They scrutinize your finances. They scrutinize your past conduct. A crowdsourced mob passionately pours through your biography and your past with a fine-toothed comb looking for anything to weaponize against you.

The more you succeed, the higher you rise, proportionally the greater this scrutiny and hatred becomes, and the longer it endures. If you rise high enough, if you do enough on behalf of your supporters, you eventually reach a point where it lasts forever. You can never go out in public without someone shouting "Fuck you!", or harassing you.

It's a Faustian bargain like celebrity, but instead of money or the love of strangers, the only meaningful compensation that is guaranteed is power. So if the President is largely some bureaucratic figurehead...holy shit, why would anyone do it?

To be honest I'd imagine he's pretty immune to that as he's already got so much dirty laundry that's been aired in public and he doesn't seem ashamed of any of it.

 

[deise69]

More likely they are smart enough to understand the impact of a campaign to them, and to him. You become villains for a huge amount of people to despise, and cheer against. Your privacy is annihilated. They dig up every bad thing you did or said, not just the candidate, but everyone close to him, and also the people close to them. They scrutinize your finances. They scrutinize your past conduct. A crowdsourced mob passionately pours through your biography and your past with a fine-toothed comb looking for anything to weaponize against you.

The more you succeed, the higher you rise, proportionally the greater this scrutiny and hatred becomes, and the longer it endures. If you rise high enough, if you do enough on behalf of your supporters, you eventually reach a point where it lasts forever. You can never go out in public without someone shouting "Fuck you!", or harassing you.

It's a Faustian bargain like celebrity, but instead of money or the love of strangers, the only meaningful compensation that is guaranteed is power. So if the President is largely some bureaucratic figurehead...holy shit, why would anyone do it?

Tell me you know nothing about Ireland or it's politics, without telling me !

He doesn't have a reputation to ruin here, the majority of people just think he's a coked up little knacker, with notions.

 

[Siver!]

Thank fuck for that.

World politics does not need any more populist trolls.

 

[Siver!]

More likely they are smart enough to understand the impact of a campaign to them, and to him. You become villains for a huge amount of people to despise, and cheer against. Your privacy is annihilated. They dig up every bad thing you did or said, not just the candidate, but everyone close to him, and also the people close to them. They scrutinize your finances. They scrutinize your past conduct. A crowdsourced mob passionately pours through your biography and your past with a fine-toothed comb looking for anything to weaponize against you.

The more you succeed, the higher you rise, proportionally the greater this scrutiny and hatred becomes, and the longer it endures. If you rise high enough, if you do enough on behalf of your supporters, you eventually reach a point where it lasts forever. You can never go out in public without someone shouting "Fuck you!", or harassing you.

It's a Faustian bargain like celebrity, but instead of money or the love of strangers, the only meaningful compensation that is guaranteed is power. So if the President is largely some bureaucratic figurehead...holy shit, why would anyone do it?

To be honest I always thought this same thing: I could never entertain entering politics because lord knows what some sneak would find in the dim and distant past.

Things I may have said or done that I genuinely no longer remember.

Keep your fine toothed combs.

It's a good point, but Conor is already pretty famous and will have been subject to some of that scrutiny anyway.